Capriccio: House and Tower on a Lagoon
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)
(Italian (Venetian), 1697–1768)
mid-18th century
Medium/TechniquePen and brown ink with brush and gray wash over graphite pencil on white paper, laid down on a decorated mount
DimensionsSheet: 21.4 x 31.6 cm (8 7/16 x 12 7/16 in.)
Credit LineArthur Mason Knapp Fund
Accession number48.1322
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDrawings
Collections
ProvenanceWilliam Beckford (b. 1760 - d. 1844), Fonthill Abbey; March 1-4, 1824, Fonthill Abbey sale, Phillips, London, possibly in lot 170 [see note 1]. William Esdaille (b. 1758 - d. 1837; Lugt 2617), London; June 18-25, 1840, posthumous Esdaile sale, Christie and Manson, London, lot 452, to Smith. Charles Sackville Bale (b. 1791 - d. 1880; Lugt 640), London; June 9-14, 1881, posthumous Bale sale, Christie, Manson, and Woods, London, lot 2260, to Lord Mays. 1948, sold by H. V. Allison and Co., Inc., New York, to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 9, 1948)
NOTES:
[1] The verso of the drawing is annotated "Canaletti / View in the Lagunes / from the Beckford Collection." It sold in 1881 as "View on the Lagunes, From the Beckford and Esdaile Collections." There were seventeen "views of Venice" by Canaletto sold in the Fonthill Abbey auction under lot 170.
NOTES:
[1] The verso of the drawing is annotated "Canaletti / View in the Lagunes / from the Beckford Collection." It sold in 1881 as "View on the Lagunes, From the Beckford and Esdaile Collections." There were seventeen "views of Venice" by Canaletto sold in the Fonthill Abbey auction under lot 170.
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)
Marten de Vos
1536–1603
Unidentified artist, French, 16th century
